Context-aware life-logging for persons with mild dementia

Author

Kikhia, Basel ; Hallberg, Josef ; Synnes, Kåre ; Sani, Zaheer Ul Hussain

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Electr. Eng., Lulea Univ. of Technol., Lulea, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

3-6 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

6183

Lastpage

6186

Abstract

The demands of introducing technology to support independent living is increasing. This is true also for persons suffering from mild dementia who may have difficulties remembering important information, such as activities, numbers, names, objects, faces, and so on. This paper presents a context-aware life-logging system, called MemoryLane, which can support independent living and improve quality of life for persons with mild dementia. The system offers both real time support as well as possibilities to rehearse and recall activities for building episodic memory. This paper also presents a mobile client to be used in MemoryLane, as well as an evaluation of the importance of different data for the purpose of memory recollection.

Keywords

handicapped aids; medical computing; medical disorders; neurophysiology; real-time systems; ubiquitous computing; MemoryLane; context-aware life-logging; episodic memory; memory aids; memory recollection; memory rehabilitation; mild dementia; real time support; Dementia; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Humans; Memory Disorders; Reminder Systems; Reproducibility of Results; Self-Help Devices; Sensitivity and Specificity; User-Computer Interface;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2009. EMBC 2009. Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3296-7

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334509

Filename

5334509